In the Eye of the Storm
When I was kid living in the Philippines, I experienced being in the eye of a hurricane or typhoon as they are called in Asia. A typhoon passed over in the town where we lived. In the eye, it was calm and it looked like a normal day, even the the sun came out, but there were dark clouds all around us, the eyewall of the typhoon.
In less than an hour, the winds picked up again as we rode out the back side of the typhoon. After the typhoon passed, I remembered seeing downed trees and missing roofs - all I can remember at the time.
After the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the nation is watching Hurricane Rita with much more interest from all levels of government and the people who are taking this hurricane much more seriously.
Rita’s response will be much different from Katrina due to lessons learned improving evacuation and emergency responses. Going forward, the nation has learned its lesson and will respond to disasters much more effectively than in the past.
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